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...judge of a bucking bull is his meanness in the arena, and on that count, 14-year-old "Aught"-half Brahman, half Hereford-probably qualifies as the orneriest critter in captivity. Starting his 13th year on the rodeo circuit, he has been saddled with 482 riders-only six have managed to stay on his back for the required eight seconds. "Those six times, he must've been colicky." says one cowboy. The roster of Aught's conquests is the Who's Who of rodeo: Harry Tompkins (five-time world champion bull rider), Billy Hand, Gid Garstead, Pete...
...reveling in the publicity (he brought his son John, 10, with him when newsmen gathered, explaining, "John wanted to get his picture on TV too"), Singelmann had been able to muster only 65 volunteers, including one family of twelve, another of ten, and at least one integrationist Freedom Rider, who gleefully accepted the racist money just for the ride. Most of the Negroes arrived in New York and Los Angeles, sheepish, shy and startled by flashbulbs and inquiring reporters...
...when the game was really rough-when thoroughbred horse racing was a contest between swift mounts and mean jocks, when it was standard practice to slash at another rider with a whip, to grab the bridle of an opposing horse, to lock legs with a boy who was bringing his mount past in close quarters...
...election White seemed surprised at being named Deputy Attorney General. "I didn't get into the campaign with the idea of getting a job," he said. But he happily took the position. As Bobby Kennedy's top aide, he directed 600 U.S. marshals in the 1961 Freedom Rider riots in Alabama, supervised antitrust cases, civil rights suits, and scouted and screened candidates for federal judgeships...
...with it. Your story says Mrs. Rockefeller is a "fantastic horseback rider despite her English saddle." Yet in the accompanying photo, Mrs. Rockefeller is shown riding the West's favorite horse, the Appaloosa, with Western gear...